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cattled up

cattled up is the simple past and past participle of cattle up.

Meaning of cattle up

Verb

cattle up (third-person singular simple present cattles up, present participle cattling up, simple past and past participle cattled up)

  1. (figuratively, rare, transitive) To gather (a group of people) together into a small space.
    • I think Scuba Du is the best operation we have dove with in Cozumel, others have been Dive Paradise and Scuba Cozumel at the Galapago. We were there in low season and had 4-6 divers per boat. I suspect they could have "cattled" us up in one or two boats but they put the whole fleet out.1997 December 23, Re: Cozumel Scuba Du, “William Seiffert, M.D.”, in rec.scuba.locations (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    crowd together

Questions about cattled up

What is cattled up the simple past and past participle of?
Cattled up is the simple past and past participle of cattle up.

Words near cattled up in the dictionary

  1. cattlebreeders
  2. cattlebreeding
  3. cattlebuyer
  4. cattlebuyers
  5. cattled
  6. cattled up
  7. cattledom
  8. cattlegirl
  9. cattlegirls
  10. cattleguard
  11. cattleguards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cattled up (page history and authors); cattle up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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